 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...lustre caught ftom Chloe's eye ; Then, trembling left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility I Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the rays of Virtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...lustre caught from CHLOE'S eye ; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the rays of Virtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of... | |
 | Student publications - 1891 - 406 pages
...said." Miss Coïde. — " Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee." Crane. — " Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays of virtue shine, More calmly clear, more mildly bright Than any gem that gilds the mine." Cougdon. — " An infinite... | |
 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...Its lustre caught from Chloe's eye, Then trembling left its coral cell, The spring of sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays of virtue shine, More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of... | |
 | Oskar Guttmann - Chants - 1893 - 298 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eys; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility. Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays of Virtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever. g. POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 163. There is a Hill beside the Silver Thames. Slow let us trace t shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright. Than any gem that gilds the mine. A. SAM'L ROGERS —... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eye; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays of Yirtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eye ; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the rays of Virtue shine, More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of... | |
 | American literature - 1903 - 462 pages
...bv the student. It is regarded, sav thev. Savoy,' and a tear is described in these sonorous lines: " Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the rays of virtue shine ; .More calmly clear, more mildly bright. Than any gem that gilds the mine." Rogers's poetry... | |
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Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the rays of Virtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. 
